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Chicken Hybrids: Common Egg-Type and Meat-Type Hybrid Breeds
Chicken hybrids are commercially important poultry produced by crossing selected inbred pure lines to combine desirable traits such as high egg production, rapid growth, and improved performance. This article covers the basic characteristics of chicken hybrids and lists common egg-type and meat-type hybrids used in commercial poultry production.
Chicken hybrids are crossbreds of poultry, produced by 2-way, 3-way, or 4-way crossing of inbred pure lines. They are the actual commercial types of poultry used for egg or meat production because they are high-laying or fast-growing.
However, they will not breed true and are unfit for further breeding. These birds possess a high degree of heterosis and hybrid vigor.
Common Egg-type Hybrid Chicken
BV-300, ISA, Babcock, Bovans, Euribrid, Hy-Line, HH-260, Dekalb, Keystone, Lohmann, and H&N Nick.
Common Meat-type Hybrid Chicken
Cobb, Ross, Steggles, Arbor Acres, Hub chicks, Hybro, Hubbard, Lohmann, Pilch, Starbro, Tegel, Anak-2000, Marshall, Peterson, Samrat-2000, and Avian-34.
